I have mentioned more than once on this blog about my upbringing and my being surrounded by many middle and high school friends who experienced unplanned pregnancies. For some, it was just a way of life and almost expected because it had become a generational tradition. For others, it was a mistake made in the [...]

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Teenagers are trouble…at least that’s what my father always said to me as I asked for the umpteenth time to borrow the keys to the car that I had already scraped, bottomed out and rear-ended somebody with in the previous year. As a mother to two small ones, I can tell you, whenever they fight [...]

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I vaguely remember actually proceeding through a sex education class in middle school. There were talks of menstrual cycles, hand-drawn figures of males and females, an uptight teacher wishing she did not have to be the one to teach us these things and lots of snickering girls, including myself. Come on…I was about twelve years [...]

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